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We tell the stories of love and courage where the good guys winFri, 09 Dec 2016 19:40:04 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2The Unlikely Way Our Founders Used Three Documents to Construct Americahttp://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/the-construction-of-a-nation/
http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/the-construction-of-a-nation/#commentsFri, 09 Dec 2016 18:36:58 +0000/?p=113039The process of designing and building a home requires forethought and planning. It requires knowing the desired outcome in order to reach the desired result. Interestingly, the construction process shares many similarities with how our nation was founded. On this installment of Glenn, Glenn explains how building a home is an apt comparison to the framework set in place by our Founders in 1776, 1787 and 1791.

Watch the video below for a sneak peak and answers to these metaphorical questions:

• How was our nation’s founding like building a house?
• What three documents are the framework?
• What famous architect would Glenn hate to work with?

]]>http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/the-construction-of-a-nation/feed/0Caller Tells Glenn How ‘The Immortal Nicholas’ Keeps Christmas Magicalhttp://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/caller-tells-glenn-how-the-immortal-nicholas-keeps-christmas-magical/
http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/caller-tells-glenn-how-the-immortal-nicholas-keeps-christmas-magical/#commentsFri, 09 Dec 2016 18:28:12 +0000/?p=113063Sometimes, it’s difficult to know if your words and actions have the desired impact. Today on The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn received a very special gift from Heath, a listener who shared how The Immortal Nicholas has impacted his son. Heath’s eight-year-old is quite enamored with the concept of Santa, and it showed during a recent visit paid to St. Nick.

“My son gets up on Santa’s lap. Santa is asking him what he wants for Christmas, the normal banter, and my son is going on about, Hey, you look really great for your age. How many Macy’s parades have you done? I mean, you look really fantastic for as old as I know that you are. Santa is just looking at him smiling. Finally, he leans into his ear, and he says, I know your real name is Agios.

“As we’re walking off, my son is like, Man, I’m glad I got that off my shoulders. And he’s like, Dad, you know, we should have got him some frankincense and brought it to him. But I know that probably would have brought back some bad memories.

“Oh, how great. What a great story,” Glenn said.

Glenn wrote The Immortal Nicholas for his own children who were paying too much attention to Santa and missing the real meaning of Christmas.

“They were buying into the Rudolph and the North Pole toy shop and everything else. And I needed a way — I didn’t want to be the anti-Santa dad — so I needed a way to bring the story of Santa in and yet not affect the story of the birth and death of Christ. And I’m so glad that you read it to him . . . and it worked,” Glenn chuckled.

Heath ended the call with a special message for Glenn.

“I just want to call and thank you for contributing to the magic of Christmas and keeping that spirit alive for kids and adults alike,” Heath said.

CALLER: I wanted to share a quick anecdote with you guys, a funny Christmas story. We took our son to see Santa the other night at the mall.

And my 8-year-old is just eaten up the concept of Santa. And how this ties into you — I’ll get to that point quickly.

My son gets up on Santa’s lap. Santa is asking him what he wants for Christmas. The normal banter. And my son is going on about, “Hey, you look really great for your age. And how many Macy’s Parades have you done? I mean, you look really fantastic for as old as I know that you are.” Santa is just looking at him smiling. And he said — finally, he leans into his ear, and he says, “I know your real name is Agios.”

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

CALLER: And Santa glances at me like, “Is your son high? Is there something wrong with him?”

PAT: That’s great.
(laughter)
CALLER: And I look back and I said, “Just go with it.” So he kindly talks to him — as we’re walking off, my son is like, “Man, I’m glad I got that off my shoulders.” And he’s like, “Dad, you know, we should have got him some frankincense and brought it to him. But I know that probably would have brought back some bad memories.”

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

PAT: That’s awesome.

GLENN: Oh, how great. What a great story.

In case you don’t know what he’s talking about, this is the book that I wrote for my children, and I think released last year or the year before, called The Immortal Nicholas. And I wrote it because I couldn’t get my kids to pay attention to Jesus. They were just paying attention to Santa. And they were buying into the Rudolph and the North Pole toy shop and everything else. And I needed a way — I didn’t want to be the anti-Santa dad. So I needed a way to bring the story of Santa in and — and yet not affect the story of the birth and death of Christ. And I’m so glad that you read it to him and it worked.
(chuckling)

PAT: How old is your son?

CALLER: He’s eight years old.

PAT: Wow. That’s great.

CALLER: And actually his question — and I’m actually sad that I got through to you this morning while he’s at school and he didn’t have a chance to talk to you.

He wanted to know — and he’s gone on and on about it since last year, he’s been asking numerous times, “Dad, Dad, how did Glenn Beck get the true story behind Santa?” I mean, he will not leave me alone about it. He wants to know how God told you. Did he come to you in a dream? Were you, you know, were you out in the wilderness? Where were you that God shared this story with you about Agios and how — so if you could wrap it up.

GLENN: You can tell him that it wasn’t God. It was — it was Santa that told me.

CALLER: Okay. Okay.

GLENN: And you have to be of a certain weight and body shape to be able to have Santa to trust you. And so I kind of resemble Santa in my body shape.

But you could just tell him that it was Agios that told me because he may know — there’s an episode of The Vault that is coming up, where I share some things that my children have received from Santa. My — my second oldest daughter, when she was very young, got a sleigh bell from Santa. She was just at the edge of unbelieving. And she wanted — the only Christmas present she wanted was a sleigh bell. She didn’t tell anybody about it. And it wasn’t there under the tree.

And thank goodness the next day we had figured out that he may have dropped it off — out of his pocket, and it rolled down the roof, and it was right there at the chimney at the bottom. And so she found that. And two years ago, my youngest child, Cheyenne, was at the age of unbelieving. And Santa left her this unbelievable handmade glove, leather glove, that has the rain marks on it and everything else that is marked Santa. And he left her this glove. And it was — I mean, it was pretty remarkable.

I mean, you would — you can’t buy something like that in a store. And you would need like, you know, your own personal I don’t know, fashion company or something to be able to make something like that.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: And so — but you can tell her —

PAT: And nobody has that. Nobody has that.

GLENN: Yeah. You can tell him that Santa has been very kind to us, and we don’t know why.

CALLER: Okay. I will do that. He has been the same to us. So I just want to call and thank you to contributing to the magic of Christmas. And keeping that spirit alive for kids and adults alike.

GLENN: Thank you. Man, I can’t — I can’t tell you — this is — I don’t — I don’t recall very many calls on The Immortal Nicholas. Like this, where people have shared with me reading it with their children. And I am so glad that — I am so glad that you had that experience. Thank you. That means the world to me.

The Bible makes me think Jesus was obsessed with forgiveness. He never stopped talking about the need to forgive others. His parables spoke of a God who was forgiving, and expected His creations to be forgiving as well.

Jesus portrayed forgiving others as essential to living life abundantly.

Jesus and science are in complete agreement on that matter, as studies have given scientific evidence for many of the things the Bible tells us about forgiving others.

]]>http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/the-scientific-case-for-forgiveness/feed/0Vault: How ‘The Pendulum Theory’ Precisely Predicts Historical Patternshttp://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/vault-how-the-pendulum-theory-precisely-predicts-historical-patterns/
http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/vault-how-the-pendulum-theory-precisely-predicts-historical-patterns/#commentsFri, 09 Dec 2016 16:44:00 +0000/?p=112786Does history repeat itself or is that something alarmists use to push their agenda? On this episode of Vault, author Roy Williams joins Glenn to talk about how We and Me generations repeat certain mindsets and collective ideas. Williams shows how this pendulum theory, outlined in his book Pendulum, traces back over millennia to precisely predict what the future holds.

Watch the video below for a sneak peak and answers to these thought-provoking questions:

• What if you had to choose between honesty and loyalty?
• How long has this generational cycle been happening in human history?
• Does Tigger from Winnie the Pooh represent the We or Me generation?

“I have never seen a piece on me go that well,” Glenn said Friday morning on radio. “They were very fair. Nightline was great. Byron Pitts is great.”

One segment of the interview — featuring Glenn at home with his family — caught the attention of radio listener Matt, who called The Glenn Beck Program on Friday.

“Just watching how your son would just look at you and relate with you, kind of bend his head against your chest, and I just thought . . . and I love watching fathers and sons, how they relate to each other . . . without saying the words, to me, that was everything anyone could have ever known about you without a word being spoken. And I was so glad that got captured in the piece last night,” Matt said.

The moment resonated with Glenn as well.

“When I watched it on Nightline last night, I saw that, and it almost brought me to tears,” Glenn replied. “I am so fortunate. I have spent so much time in my life afraid of having a son because of the relationship I had with my dad. And it truly is one of the greatest things of my life.”

DALLAS – Carnitas are their specialty. But now, free coats are also served up on the side.

The Taco Stop on Irving Blvd. northwest of downtown Dallas, has resumed the effort owner Emilia Flores started last winter. A coat rack, loaded with coats, scarves, and hats sits just outside the front patio.

]]>http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/watch-dallas-taco-shop-offers-free-coats-for-those-in-need/feed/0Heroin Now Kills More People Than Guns in Americahttp://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/heroin-now-kills-more-people-than-guns-in-america/
http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/12/09/heroin-now-kills-more-people-than-guns-in-america/#commentsFri, 09 Dec 2016 09:10:25 +0000/?p=113016Excerpt from Gizmodo
Written by Bryan Menegus

For the first time ever, deaths in America due to heroin overdose outnumber gun homicides. And before you ask, no, the number of gun homicides hasn’t been dropping. Good lord.

The data, pulled from the CDC by the Washington Post, is dispiriting reminder of our nation’s worsening opium epidemic, which was started by money-hungry drug companies and continues to claim more lives year over year. Gun homicides for 2015 were estimated at 12,979; heroin killed 12,989.

Heroin only accounts for a portion of the substances being abused by opiate addicts. And as the Post points out, one of the deadliest is fentanyl, which is estimated to be between 50 and 100 times stronger than morphine.

People are apparently upset by the lyrics of the classic Christmas song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” because it’s “too rapey.”

As we all know, the original 1944 version is sexy as hell. It’s about a couple who, after attending a holiday party together, find themselves at a somewhat awkward crossroads. The woman, who very clearly doesn’t want to go home, makes up little excuses as to why she should leave, but her date convinces her to stay by pointing out how cold it is outside.

But apparently this is all too much for the “can I touch you here” generation. A couple from Minneapolis (who probably shop at Whole Foods and wear Warby Parker glasses) say the song made them feel uncomfortable, so they decided to rewrite the lyrics.

Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation to discourage futile recount efforts by candidates who lose their election bids by an incontestable amount, forcing the candidate to foot the bill for the recount.

Introduced by Republican state Sen. Lisa Lyons (R-Alto) last week, the bill, H.B. 6097, would make a candidate who lost by more than 5 percent pay for the full cost of the recount for each precinct referred to (there are 6,300 precincts in Michigan) in his or her petition. The bill passed on a 5-3 vote in the House Elections committee Tuesday, and now moves to the state’s full House of Representatives for consideration.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein filed for a hand recount of all 4.8 million votes in Michigan (among others) in the Nov. 8 presidential election, citing unreliable voting machines and supposed irregularities.